Pubdate: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 Source: Wisconsin State Journal (WI) Copyright: 2006 Madison Newspapers, Inc. Contact: http://www.madison.com/wsj/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/506 Author: Ed Treleven SECOND DRUG-DEATH COUNT FILED AGAINST WOMAN A convicted heroin dealer, who police say had bragged that her drugs were so good that they killed, was charged Friday with her second drug overdose homicide. Lavinia M. Mull, 26, of Madison, who pleaded guilty in January to first-degree reckless homicide for the drug overdose death last year of Sarah Stellner, was charged Friday with first-degree reckless homicide for the May 5 heroin overdose death of Michael Ace, 31, of Madison, at his West Wilson Street apartment. Ace died just nine days after Stellner. After Stellner's death a drug buyer working as a police informant said that Mull was still selling heroin and "had been advertising it as being so good that it has killed people," a criminal complaint in the Stellner case states. Jonathan Lehnherr, 24, who was charged in December with first-degree reckless homicide for Ace's death, told police last month that in April and May he had bought heroin once or twice daily from Mull or her boyfriend, most of the time at Mull's duplex on Larry Lane in the town of Blooming Grove, according to the latest criminal complaint against Mull. Mull and Lehnherr were charged under Wisconsin's so-called Len Bias law, named for the University of Maryland basketball star who died from a cocaine overdose, which allows drug dealers to be charged with reckless homicide if drugs that they sold caused the death of a user. Dane County prosecutors have made extensive use of the Len Bias law to charge 19 people in connection with 13 drug overdose deaths since 2002. Only one other person, Patricia Mims, has been convicted in Dane County of causing two overdose deaths - those of David Bechtel, 47, of Janesville, and Gregory Elmer, 43, of Monona, on Sept. 12, 2003. She is serving a 10-year prison sentence. Stellner, 19, died on April 26 after she was injected with a dose of heroin that a friend bought from Mull. Two friends were convicted of first-degree reckless homicide. Morgan Fenick, 18, who injected Stellner, was sentenced earlier this month to seven years of probation with a year in jail. Ryan Daley, 24, who bought the heroin, got a two-year prison sentence. Samuel Katz, 27, was convicted of delivery of heroin and sentenced to five years of probation with six months in jail. Mull is scheduled to be sentenced in the Stellner case on April 13. According to the latest complaint against Mull: Lehnherr told Madison police Detective Mike Montie that he bought heroin twice from Mull at her duplex on the day that Ace died. Using cell phone records, Lehnherr identified the calls he made to Mull to set up the purchases. Even after Ace's death, Lehnherr said, he continued to buy heroin from Mull or her boyfriend once a week until late July. Lehnherr initially had told police after Ace died that he did not know who sold him the heroin but that it was someone on Allied Drive, the complaint states. On Feb. 13, however, Lehnherr picked Mull from a photo lineup and said he had gone to her home on Larry Lane to make the buys. Lehnherr said he had first met Mull in April after giving Mull's mother a ride to Mull's house, then began to regularly buy heroin from her. - --- MAP posted-by: SHeath(DPF Florida)